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In short, Nora had spoken truthfully She had seen a man dressed in white

flannels and canvas shoes, but her eyes had not traveled so far as his

face

"Mother, we must have some of those silk blankets They're so co except when you want to," coan

"It saves a deal of trouble I don't want to go to the colonel's this

afternoon He always has some frump to pour tea and ask fool questions"

"The frump, as you call her, is usually a countess or a duchess," with

asperity

"Fiddlesticks! Nobility makes a specialty of frumps; it is one of the

species of the caste That's why I shall never marry a title I wish

neither to visit nor to entertain frumps Frump,--the word calls up the

exact picture; fruo, but I'd rather stay on ood book"

"My dear," patiently, "the colonel is one of the social laws on Como His

sister is the wife of an earl You must not offend him His Sundays are

the most exclusive on the lake"

"The word exclusive should be properly applied to those in jail The

social ladder, the social ladder! Don't you know, reed, and that those who cli the padre"

"The padre could give lessons in kindness and shrewdness to any other own he would have been a poet I love the